Hey, New Scientist! Yes, you, Roger Highfield, if your ego-trawl is working. This is how you correct a mistake that someone who writes for you made:

Correction: January 29, 2009
An article on Saturday about the book “The Other Side of Desire: Four Journeys Into the Far Realms of Lust and Lo...

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Time passes, other things (cheese!) happen. Life gets hectic. And What I Did Last Sunday becomes a little too constraining, because we're now two Sundays ago.

A Roman aquaduct with the pillar of one arch cut through to allow a large road to go under it.

The first time I saw this archway, which leads up onto the Tangenziale Est, I almost burst out laughing. It is not part of the wall; that...

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Mozzarella floating in water Just a couple of mozzarella balls,1 nothing much to blog about. Except for one tiny thing: I made them! At home! And it is all Barbara Kingsolver’s fault.

I may have given the impression that her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is not very good. That would be wrong. It has its faults, no do...

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Whoa. Surfer Dude does History of Science. On TedTalks, like, seven years ago. Cosmic. And hey, the planet isn’t getting warmer, y’know.

I knew him when ...

It takes me a while to catch up with things, sometimes, which is why I have only just watched Jennifer 8 Lee’s stunning talk at Taste3, transmitted through TedTalks. This was magnificent, everything a presentation should be. Packed with information, brilliantly illustrated (I’d like to see all the s...

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